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Switzerland's Zurich Insurance Group AG is in advanced talks to acquire MetLife Inc's U.S. property and casualty (P&C) car and home insurance unit for close to $4 billion, according to people familiar with the matter.

Stocks were broadly lower and bond yields slipped on Friday on concern about dwindling stimulus in the United States and the economic cost of rising COVID19 infections around the world.

Olive oil, a major constituent of the Mediterranean cuisine, has quickly gained popularity as one of the healthiest oils in the world.

Imran Khan’s father-in-law Ranjev Malik said in a recent interview that his son-in-law has quit acting, whereas his daughter and Imran’s wife Avantika Malik wanted him to focus on acting.

The matter came to light during the investigations being carried out by the Special Investigation Team (SIT), set up to probe the Bikru massacre in which eight policemen were killed on July 3 by Dubey and his men.

The department recommended this initiative to fight caste biases across the state. In the recent past, many such cases have surfaced where Dalits and OBCs are denied services at barber shops and in some cases upper caste members boycott the salon if the b...

Mirsad Zahirovic is a universityeducated journalist and activist who moonlights as a waiter because he is not a member of one of the ruling political parties, which is almost the only way to get a job in his native Bosnia.

As per Facebook's transparency report, government requests for user data increased by 23 percent to 1,73,592 globally from 1,40,875 in the second half of 2019. The highest number of requests in January-June 2020 came from the US with 61,528 requests.

"Countdown begins. Few hours to go," the teaser from PUBG Mobile India reads. The game is being launched for Android users initially.

Indian Arrows Head Coach Venkatesh Shanmugam said the team can compete with any team in the IFA Shield.

Russia has sentenced a man to 13 years in prison for trying to pass military secrets about Russia's Northern Fleet to the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, the Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Friday.

China's foreign minister will visit Seoul next week for meetings with officials there, South Korea's foreign ministry said on Friday, amid efforts to resume bilateral summit diplomacy and stalled nuclear talks involving North Korea.

According to the graft case lodged against the Maneka Gandhi and two others in 2006, they had allegedly sanctioned Rs 50 lakh as a grant to a trust in a fraudulent manner.

Tickets for six shortformat matches between Australia and India in November and December were all but exhausted on Friday, Cricket Australia said, while there was also some good news about the opening match in the test series.

Airtel does not want the definition of home broadband to change to 2Mbps from 512Kbps. The minimum broadband speed requirements of popular apps such as Zoom and Netflix do not support this theory. We are sure many wired broadband users would disagree with...

South Korea's prime minister on Friday pleaded with the public to avoid social gatherings and warned that tougher measures may be needed if a new wave of coronavirus infections is not quickly contained.